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Dr Yibing Wang

Title: Senior Lecturer

Contact Information:

E-mail:Yibing.Wang@eng.monash.edu.au
Phone:+61 3 9905 9339
Fax:+61 3 9905 4944
Room:101
Building:60
Campus:Clayton

Teaching Commitments:

Undergraduate Subjects:

  1. CIV2282 Transport and Traffic Engineering
  2. CIV3204 Engineering Investigation
  3. CIV4210 & CIV4211 Fourth Year Project A & B
Gradaute Subject:
  1. CIV5303 Quantitative Methods

Qualifications:

Dr. Yibing Wang received the B.Sc. degree in electronics and computer engineering from Sichuan University, China, the M.Eng. degree in automatic control engineering from Chongqing University, China, and the Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Applications from Tsinghua University, China. He was with the Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory, Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece, where he was a Postdoctoral Researcher from 1999 to 2001 and a Senior Research Fellow from 2001 to 2007. He is currently a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include traffic flow modelling, freeway traffic surveillance, ramp metering, route guidance, urban traffic signal control, vehicular infrastructure integration. He has published more than 20 international journal papers and book chapters. He has extensive research and development experience on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). From 2000 to 2007, he participated in several European projects on ITS and collaborated with transportation research and practice professionals from Greece, Germany, UK, Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands.

Dr. Wang is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, the Book Reviews Editor and an Editorial Board Member of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. He is a member of the IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Technical Committee on Transportation Systems. He was a vice program chair of the 9th IEEE Annual Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Toronto, 2006). He is Program Chair of the 13th IEEE Annual Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Madeira Island, Portugal, 2010).

Research:

Research interests:
  • Traffic flow theory
  • Traffic network modelling and simulation
  • Real-time freeway traffic surveillance (traffic state estimation and prediction, travel time prediction, queue tracking, automatic incident detection and sensor fault diagnosis)
  • Environment impacts on traffic flow characteristics
  • Freeway ramp metering and speed limit control
  • Urban traffic signal control
  • Dynamic traffic assignment and real-time route guidance
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
  • Automated Highway Systems (AHS)
  • Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII)
  • Automatic control methods with application to ITS
  • Communication technologies with application to ITS

Publications:

Book Chapters

  1. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. Real-Time Motorway Network Traffic Surveillance Tool RENAISSANCE. In Traffic and Granular Flow’ 03. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp. 295-304.
  2. Papageorgiou, M., M. Ben-Akiva, Y. Wang, J. Bottom, A. Kotsialos. Dynamic Traffic Management. In 2006 McGRAW-HILL Yearbook of Science & Technology. McGRAW-HILL, 2006, pp. 107-110.
  3. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. Macroscopic Model-Based Real-Time Surveillance of Motorway Network Traffic. In Modélisation du Trafic - Actes du Groupe de Travail 2003, Actes INRETS, Paris, France, 2006, pp. 41-56.
  4. Wang, Y., C. Diakaki, A. Kotsialos, M. Papageorgiou. Towards Integrated Network Traffic Control. In Modeling, Information, and Control of Intelligent Transportation Systems (in French), Hermès Science Publishing Ltd, UK, 2007, pp. 281-313.
  5. Papageorgiou, M., I. Papamichail, and Y. Wang. The Role of Macroscopic Modeling in Simulation, Surveillance and Control of Motorway Network traffic. To be published in a book for selected papers presented at the 2nd International Symposium of Transport Simulation (Lausanne, Switzerland, September 4-6, 2006).

Special Issues of International Journals

  1. Guest Editorial for the Special Issue on ITSC06. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 9, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1-4.

International Journal Papers

  1. Wang, Y., A. Messmer, and M. Papageorgiou. Freeway Network Simulation and Dynamic Traffic Assignment using METANET Tools. Transportation Research Record, No. 1776, 2001, pp. 178-188.
  2. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. A Predictive Feedback Routing Control Strategy for Freeway Network Traffic. Transportation Research Record, No. 1856, 2003, pp. 62-73.
  3. Papageorgiou, M., C. Diakaki, V. Dinopoulou, A. Kotsialos, and Y. Wang. Review of Road Traffic Control Strategies. Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 91, 2003, pp. 2043-2067.
  4. Wang, Y., and M. Papageorgiou. Real-Time Freeway Traffic State Estimation based on Extended Kalman Filter: A General Approach. Transportation Research B, vol. 39, 2005, pp. 141-167.
  5. Papageorgiou, M., Y. Wang., and A. Messmer. RENAISSANCE in motorway surveillance. ITS International, vol. 11, 2005, Issue 4 (July/August), pp. 55-56.
  6. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. A Real-Time Freeway Network Traffic Surveillance Tool. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 14, 2006, pp. 18-32.
  7. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. RENAISSANCE--A Unified Macroscopic Model Based Approach to Real-Time Freeway Network Traffic Surveillance. Transportation Research C, vol. 14, 2006, pp. 190–212.
  8. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, G. Sarros, and W. J. Knnibe. Feedback Route Guidance Applied to a Large-Scale Urban Express Ring Road. Transportation Research Record, No. 1965, 2006, pp.79-88.
  9. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. Real-Time Freeway Traffic State Estimation based on Extended Kalman Filter: A Case Study. Transportation Science, vol. 41, 2007, pp. 167-181.
  10. Papageorgiou, M., I. Papamichail, and Y. Wang. Motorway Traffic Surveillance and Control. European Journal of Control, vol. 13, 2007, pp. 297-319.
  11. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. Investigations on the Adaptive Features of a Real-Time Nonlinear Freeway Traffic State Estimator. Nonlinear Dynamics, vol. 49, 2007, pp. 511–524.
  12. Papageorgiou, M., E. Kosmatopoulos, I. Papamichail, and Y. Wang. ALINEA Maximizes Motorway Throughput – An Answer to Flawed Criticism. Traffic Engineering & Control, vol. 48, 2007, pp. 271-276.
  13. Papageorgiou, M., E. Kosmatopoulos, I. Papamichail, and Y. Wang. A Misapplication of the Local Ramp Metering Strategy ALINEA. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 9, 2008, pp. 360-365.
  14. Vigos G., M. Papageorgiou, and Y. Wang. Real-Time Estimation of Vehicle-Count within Signalized Links. Transportation Research C, vol. 16, 2008, pp. 18-35.
  15. Wang, Y., P. Coppola, A. Messmer, A. Tzimitsi, M. Papageorgiou, A. Nuzzolo. Real-Time Freeway Network Traffic Surveillance: Large-Scale Field Testing in Southern Italy, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
  16. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, A. Messmer, P. Coppola, A. Tzimitsi, and A. Nuzzolo. An Adaptive Freeway Traffic State Estimator. Automatica (Regular Paper), vol. 45, 2009, pp. 10-24.

Papers under Review or Preparation

  1. Wang, Y., E. Kosmatopoulos, M. Papageorgiou, and A. Schieferstein. Local Ramp Metering in the Presence of a fixed Distant Downstream Bottleneck.
  2. Wang, Y., A. Tzimitsi, M. Papageorgiou. Local Ramp Metering in the Presence of Uncertain Distant Downstream Bottlenecks.
  3. Wang, Y., A. Tzimitsi, M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. Online Adaptive Model Calibration and its Role in Automatic Traffic Incident Detection and Detector Fault Diagnosis.
  4. Wang, Y., G. Sarros, and M. Papageorgiou. A Simple Approach to OD Estimation for Large-Scale Freeway Networks with Application to the Amsterdam Express Ring Roads.

Papers in Chinese Journals

  1. Wang, Y., and Z. Han. On Automated Highway Systems. Control and Decision, vol.12, 1997, pp. 403-407.
  2. Wang, Y., Z. Han, Z. Luo, and Q. Shi. Control Issues in Freeway Traffic Management. China Journal of Highway and Transport, vol.10, 1997, pp. 89-93.
  3. Wang, Y., and Z. Han. Freeway Traffic Flow Modeling. Journal of System Engineering, vol.13, 1998, pp. 83-89.
  4. Wang, Y., Z. Han, and G. He. A Survey on Urban Expressway Traffic Control. ACTA AUTOMATICA SINICA, vol. 24, 1998, pp. 484-496.
  5. Wang, Y., and Z. Han. On Stability Properties of Nonlinear Systems with Slowly Varying Inputs. Control Theory and Its Applications, vol. 16, 1999, pp. 158-162 and 168.

International Conference Papers

  1. Wang, Y., and Z. Han. An Extended Stability Theorem for Nonlinear Systems subject to Slowly Varying Exogenous Signals. Proceedings of 1998 American Control Conference, Philadelphia, USA, June 24-26, 1998, pp. 3634-3638.
  2. Wang, Y., and Z. Han. Stability of an Automated Vehicle Platoon. Proceedings of 1998 American Control Conference, Philadelphia, USA, June 24-26, 1998, pp. 950-954.
  3. Wang, Y., and M. Papageorgiou. Feedback Routing Control Strategies for Freeway Networks: A Comparative Study. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies, Beijing, P. R. China, 2000, pp. 642-649.
  4. Wang, Y., A. Messmer, and M. Papageorgiou. Freeway Network Simulation and Dynamic Traffic Assignment using METANET Tools. Transportation Research Board 80th Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., January 7-11, 2001, No. 01-3111.
  5. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. Feedback and Iterative Routing Strategies for Freeway Networks. Proceedings of 2001 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Mexico City, Mexico, September 5-7, 2001, pp. 1162-1167.
  6. Wang, Y., A. Messmer, and M, Papageorgiou. A Predictive Feedback Routing Control Strategy for Freeway Network Traffic. Proceedings of 2002 American Control Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 8-10, 2002, pp. 3606-3611.
  7. Wang, Y., A. Messmer, and M, Papageorgiou. Performance Evaluation of Predictive Feedback Routing for Freeway Networks. The 15th International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2002 (Paper CD-ROM).
  8. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. A Predictive Feedback Routing Control Strategy for Freeway Network Traffic. Transportation Research Board 82nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., January 12-16, 2003, No. 03-3061.
  9. Papageorgiou, M., Y. Wang, and A. Messmer. A Real-Time Motorway Network Traffic Surveillance Tool RENAISSANCE. Proceedings of the Workshop on Traffic Modeling: Trends and Challenges, Sitges, Spain, June 2-4, 2003, pp. 48-49.
  10. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. RENAISSANCE: A Real-Time Motorway Network Traffic Surveillance Tool. Preprints of the 10th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, Tokyo, Japan, August 4-6, 2003, pp. 235-240.
  11. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. Motorway Traffic State Estimation based on Extended Kalman Filter. European Control Conference, Cambridge, UK, September 1-4, 2003 (Paper CD-ROM).
  12. Wang, Y., G. Sarros, M. Papageorgiou, and W. J. Knibbe. Real-Time Route Guidance in Large-scale Urban Express Ring Roads. Proceedings of the 16th World Congress of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Prague, Czech Republic, July 4-8, 2005.
  13. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. An Adaptive Freeway Traffic State Estimator and Its Real Data Testing-Part I: Basic Properties. Proceedings of IEEE 8th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vienna, Austria, September 13-16, 2005, pp. 531-536.
  14. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. An Adaptive Freeway Traffic State Estimator and Its Real Data Testing -Part II: Adaptive Capabilities. Proceedings of IEEE 8th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vienna, Austria, September 13-16, 2005, pp. 537-542.
  15. Sultan, B., M. McDonald, Y. Wang, M. Papageorgiou. An Assessment of a Real-Time Motorway Traffic Surveillance Tool using Measurement Data from Loop, Radar and Video Detectors. Proceedings of the 5th International Scientific Conference on Transport Systems Telematics, Katowice-Ustroñ, Poland, November 3-5, 2005, pp. 389-399.
  16. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, G. Sarros, and W. J. Knnibe. Feedback Route Guidance Applied to a Large-Scale Express Ring Road. Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., January 22-26, 2006, No. 06-0480.
  17. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. Investigation of the Adaptive Features of a Real-Time Freeway Traffic State Estimator. Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., January 22-26, 2006, No. 06-0239.
  18. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. A Unified Approach to Real-Time Freeway Network Traffic Surveillance. Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., January 22-26, 2006, No. 06-0258.
  19. Papageorgiou, M., E. Kosmatopoulos, I. Papamichail, Y. Wang, A. Kouvelas, K. Aboudolas. Advanced Traffic Control Strategies and Prospective Applications in Greece. The 3rd International Congress on Transportation Research in Greece, Thessaloniki, Greece, 19-20 May, 2006.
  20. Papageorgiou, M., Y. Wang, I. Papamichail, E. Kosmatopoulos, and A. Kotsialos. Advanced Motorway Traffic Modeling, Simulation, Surveillance and Control Strategies. The 1st International Symposium on Freeway and Tollway Operations, Athens, Greece, June 4-7, 2006.
  21. Papageorgiou, M., I. Papamichail, and Y. Wang. The Role of Macroscopic Modeling in Simulation, Surveillance and Control of Motorway Network traffic. The 2nd International Symposium of Transport Simulation, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 4-6, 2006.
  22. Wang, Y., and M. Papageorgiou. Local Ramp Metering in the Case of Distant Downstream Bottlenecks. Proceedings of the IEEE 9th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Paper CD-ROM), Toronto, Canada, September 17-20, 2006, pp. 426-431.
  23. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. RENAISSANCE: A Real-Time Freeway Network Traffic Surveillance Tool. Proceedings of the IEEE 9th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Paper CD-ROM), Toronto, Canada, September 17-20, 2006, pp. 839-844.
  24. Vigos, G., M. Papageorgiou, and Y. Wang. A Ramp Queue Length Estimation Algorithm. Proceedings of the IEEE 9th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Paper CD-ROM), Toronto, Canada, September 17-20, 2006, pp. 418-425.
  25. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, G. Sarros, and W. J. Knnibe. Real-Time Route Guidance for Large-Scale Express Ring Roads. Proceedings of the IEEE 9th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Paper CD-ROM), Toronto, Canada, September 17-20, 2006, pp. 224-229.
  26. Wang, Y., A. Schieferstein, and M. Papageorgiou. Local Ramp Metering in the Presence of a Distant Downstream Bottleneck. Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting (Paper CD-ROM), Washington, D. C., January 21-25, 2007.
  27. Wang, Y., P. Coppola, A. Messmer, A. Tzimitsi, M. Papageorgiou, A. Nuzzolo. Extended Field Test of a Real-Time Freeway Network Traffic State Estimator. Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting (Paper CD-ROM), Washington, D. C., January 21-25, 2007.
  28. Wang, Y., P. Coppola, A. Messmer, A. Tzimitsi, M. Papageorgiou, A. Nuzzolo. Real-Time Freeway Network Traffic Surveillance: Large-scale Field Testing Results in Southern Italy. Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting (Paper CD-ROM), Washington, D. C., January 13-17, 2008.
  29. Lentzakis, A. F., A. D. Spiliopoulou, I. Papamichail, M. Papageorgiou, Y. Wang. Real-Time Work Zone Management for Throughput Maximization. Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting (Paper CD-ROM), Washington, D. C., January 13-17, 2008.
  30. Wang, Y., P. Coppola, A. Messmer, A. Tzimitsi, M. Papageorgiou, A. Nuzzolo. Large-scale Field Testing of a Real-time Freeway Network Traffic State Estimator in South Italy. Proceedings of the IEEE 11th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Paper CD-ROM), Beijing, China, October 12-15, 2008, pp. 395-401.
  31. Kosmatopoulos, E. M. Papageorgiou, Y. Wang. An Automated Maintenance and Calibration Tool for Traffic Management & Control Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE 11th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Paper CD-ROM), Beijing, China, October 12-15, 2008, pp. 97-104.
  32. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou. A Joint State and Parameter Estimation Approach to Freeway Traffic State Estimation, Incident Alarm, and Detector Fault Diagnosis. Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting (Paper CD-ROM), Washington, D. C., January 11-15, 2009.

European Technical Reports

  1. Wang, Y., E. Smaragdis, M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. State-of-the-art and Functional Specifications of Traffic Surveillance and Isolated Ramp Metering Algorithms. Deliverable D3.1 for the Project RHYTHM (IST-2000-29427), Report for the Information Society Technologies Office of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, May 2002.
  2. Wang, Y., M. Papageorgiou, and A. Messmer. Algorithms and Preliminary Testing for Traffic Surveillance. Deliverable 3.2 for the Project RHYTHM (IST-2000-29427), Report for the Information Society Technologies Office of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, July 2003.
  3. Wang, Y. (one of the major contributors) Final Report. Deliverable 1.3 for the Project RHYTHM (IST-2000-29427), Report for the Information Society Technologies Office of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, February 2005.
  4. Wang, Y. (one of the contributors) Simulation Testing for Local Ramp Metering Strategies. Deliverable D3.2 for the Project EURAMP (IST-2002-23110), Report for the Information Society Technologies Office of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, February 2006.